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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
George A Bowley, McLean, VA (US);
Assignee:
Optical Technologies, Inc., McLean, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-118 ; 84-116 ; 84-101 ; 84-124 ;
Abstract
A fiber optic musical instrument provides a design in which the musical notes and characteristic instrument sounds normally sensed by electro-mechanical devices such as magnetic pickups and acoustic transducers are generated by the modulation of light within optical fibers and are optically transmitted to amplifying devices without the need for externally mounted sensing devices.